Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen (I live, my heart, for your pleasure), BWV 145, is a five-movement church cantata on a libretto by Picander which Johann Sebastian Bach, as its composer, probably first performed in Leipzig on Easter Tuesday, 19 April 1729. As a seven-movement pasticcio, with one of the added movements composed by Georg Philipp Telemann, it is an Easter cantata known as So du mit deinem Munde bekennest Jesum (as it was published in the 19th century) or as Auf, mein Herz! (after the incipit of the pasticcio's first movement).

Librettist Christian Friedrich Henrici (1700-1764) (as Picander) (Composer's additions (Nos.a-b))
Date of composition 1729
Premiered 1729, April 19th in Leipzig, Germany
First published 1884 (BGA)
Dedicated to 3rd day of Easter (Easter Tuesday)
Type Sacred Cantata
Tonality D Major
Catalogue BWV 145
Instruments 3x Voice
Chorus/Choir
Orchestra
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Autotranslations beta Jean-Sébastien Bach: Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen en ré majeur, BWV 145
Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen in re maggiore, BWV 145
Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich lebe, mein Herze, zu deinem Ergötzen D-dur, BWV 145